Jeffus & Williams Quote of the Week:

“Joe, do you have a carrier pigeon I can borrow?”
–Conrad to our inventory guy, after trying unsuccessfully to send a fax three times
Edit: Runner-up, uttered 15 minutes before the deadline:
“It's great. You get to work any 18 hours out of the day you want. [...]

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Gift List

Brian
Dread Pirate
The Art of Discworld
Brian Setzer Orchestra albums
Dom Perignon
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes
Mum
iTunes gift card
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
The Polar Express

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I find your lack of organization disturbing, Commander…

You know, I really can't say much about the last receptionist they had here, as I didn't know her, but one thing I can say with certainty – when it came to filing, she was probably smoking crack. For some reason she decided that all the work orders needed to be filed in reverse [...]

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Blah.

Well, not only is J&W sending Brian out to Sitka tomorrow to fill in for their computer guy there, they had to send him out to the mine tonight to go fix something semi-urgent. He was supposed to go on a plane today, but the weather went bad (common occurrence in Alaska, as one [...]

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Work email

If anyone needs to reach me (or just wants to say hi) between the hours of 8-5 Monday through Friday, email's probably the best way.
rose@jeffuswilliams.com
Send me some email, dammit. Getting nothing but spam gets boring. =P

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I officially love my new job.

(Okay, so technically I've unofficially loved it since Friday afternoon, but they said I wasn't allowed to say I loved it until I'd gotten through a Monday. Well, Monday's almost over and I still love my job. Admittedly, it's been pretty slow for a Monday, but it's still Monday. So there. [...]

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…and after the bad news and the bizarre news, now for the good news.

I had my interview over at Jeffus & Williams this morning. It went well enough; it wasn't anywhere near as structured as a regular interview usually is. While they did ask job-related questions (mostly to the effect of “Will you show up on time?”), it felt more like they were trying to get [...]

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Am I a receptionist dreaming of being an actor? Or am I an actor dreaming about working reception?

I have this theory about dreams. It goes like this: We, by which I mean people, are inherently transdimensional beings – our spirits or life forces or thetans or whatever you want to call them are not limited to three dimensions. And when we dream, we are in a sense returning to [...]

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Good news and middle-of-the-road news…

First, the good news – I got a call from Perseverance yesterday, and they apparently want me for the chorus in King Island Christmas. I'd be more disappointed about not getting a solo, but considering that [a] there's only one female solo and [b] a good 80% of the production is chorus work, I'm [...]

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Hell freezing over…just enough to make the water tepid

So I wake up this morning and check the local news page, and under the “National Coverage” section, the first two headlines are:
Roberts: Roe vs. Wade “entitled to respect”
Bush taking responsibility for blunders
Now, admittedly, neither of these are as good as they could be. The quotes from Roberts' round of questioning with the [...]

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